Teachers: Dan Grasser
Textbook: Sociology, The Study of Human Relations Holt, Rinehart and Winston (2003)
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Obj #
Unit
Objective:
"The learner will . . ."
Standard(s)
No. of Days
Vocabulary Terms
Resources
Student Learning Activities
Assessment
Language Arts Standard(s)
Culture and Social Structure
1
-understand the sociological point of view
-examine social life
-review the various thoeries pertaining to sociology
-examine cultural diversity
-understand the meaning of culture
-identify culrural variations
-review cultural conformity and adaptations
-examine the American value system
-understand social control
-examine social change
-review social structure
-list the building blocks of social structure
-examine types of social interactions
-identify types of societies
-understand groups within society
-describe the structure of formal organizations
ss12.3.4
ss12.3.4e
ss12.3.5
ss12.3.5b

diffusion
ideology
relativism
mediation
internalization
reciprocity
norms
mores
- text-
-online resources
-transparencies
-research projects and activities
-readings and case studies
-critical thinking projections
-graphic organizers
-chapter tests
-unit tests
-homework assignments
-review activities

The Individual in Society
2
-understand the socialization of the individual
-explore personality development
-examine the social self
-identify the agents of socialization
-examine adolescence in our society
-dicuss teenagers and dating
-identify the challenges of adolescence
-describe the adult in society
-explore early and middle adulthood
-understand the world of work
-review the later years and the problem of aging
-examine deviance and social control
-understand deviance
-explore crime in American society


homogamy
anomie
stigma
recidivism
deviance
gerontology
integration
socialization
-text
-onlinw resources
-transparencies
-research projects and activities
-readings and case studies
-critical thinking projections
-graphic organizers
-chapter tests
-unit tests
-review activities
-homework assignments

Social Inequality
3
-examine social stratification
-identify systems of stratification
-describe the American class system
-understand poverty
-examine racial and ethnic relations
-identify race, ethnicity and social structure
-decribe patterns of intergroup relations
-explore minority groups in the United States
-examine gender issues
-describe age and disability and identify associated problems
-understand health issues


endogamy
genocide
pluralism
minority
sexism
ethnicity
bourgeoisie
proletariat
stratification
subjugation
assimilation
social mobility
-text
-online resources
-transparencies
-research projects and activities
-readings and case studies
-critical thinking projections
-graphic organizers
-chapter tests
-unit tests
-review activities
-homework assignments

Social Institutions
4
-examine the family
-understand the family in a cross cultural perspective
-describe the American family
-examine the economy and politics
-understand economic institutions
-understand political institutions
-describe education and religion
-explain the sciology of education
-explore the sociology of religion
-understand science and the mass media
-explore science as a social institution
-explore mass media as a social institution
ss12.2.5
ss12.2.5a
ss12.2.5b
ss12.2.5c
ss12.2.10
ss12.2.10d

paradigm
capitalism
religion
multinational
socialization
bilocality
matriarchal
egalitarian
patriarchal
economics
corporation
-text
-online resources
-transparencies
-research projects and activities
-readings and case studies
-critical thinking projections
-graphic organizers
-chapter tests
-unit tests
-review activities
-homework assignments